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Tuesday 23 January 2018

TIME FOR

TENNYS

New England Patriots wide
receiver Danny Amendola
holds the AFC championship
trophy after the Patriots
defeated the Jacksonville
Jaguars in an NFL football
game, Sunday, Jan. 21, 2018,
in Foxborough, Mass. The
Patriots won 24-20.
Associated Press
Patriots

favored by

5-6 points

over Eagles

in Super Bowl

By TIM DAHLBERG
AP Sports Writer
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Odds-
makers like the chances of
Tom Brady winning a sixth
Super Bowl ring, making the
New England Patriots near-
ly a touchdown favorite to
beat the Philadelphia Ea-
gles. Sports books around
Las Vegas opened the
Patriots around a 6-point
favorite Sunday to win
their second straight Super Sandgren topples Thiem to
Bowl. They also made New
England a big favorite to
win the Super Bowl next keep Melbourne dream alive
year in Atlanta.
But the closest thing to a
lock in this gambling city is
that betting on this Super United States’ Tennys Sandgren hits a forehand return to
Bowl will smash the existing Austria’s Dominic Thiem during their fourth round match at the
record of $138.5 million set
just last year. Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia,
“Sports betting couldn’t Monday, Jan. 22, 2018.
be more popular than it is Associated Press
now,” said Jay Kornegay Page 18
of the Westgate Las Vegas
sports book.

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